Explore Your Archive

💫 New themes! 💫 We’re very excited to announce the new monthly themes for 2026 - we can’t wait to see what you explore in your archives this year! #ExploreYourArchives

What a wonderful campaign @explorearchives @ARAIreland Thank you so much for all your hard work, a pleasure to take part. A favourite, Whitchurch Hosp has military & mental health history - used during the First & Second World Wars. Full post 📷 #EYAYourArchive #EYAFocusWeek

#ExploreYourArchive Day 9: Your Archives 📖 If you have enjoyed exploring our archives this week and would like to access the archive yourself you can plan a visit the Templer Study Centre here bit.ly/4pLADBb #EYAYourArchives

For #EYAYourArchives we explored our shelves to uncover items we hadn’t seen before. Each day brings new discoveries, from unfamiliar documents to overlooked details. Today we found an architectural submission for the 1870s design competition for Dublin South City Markets.

The Royal Berkshire Archives have been caring for the county's records since 1948. We moved to our current purpose built archive in 2000 and were granted a royal title in 2023. We are open to visitors during the day Tues-Fri and are open late one Thurs a month. #EYAYourArchives

Pictured here is Séamus Hughes, the first full-time radio announcer on 2RN circa 1926 #EYAYourArchives #ExploreYourArchives @explorearchives @ARAIreland Explore thousands of stories from the RTÉ Archives rte.ie/archives/

The Treasury houses the College chest, which contained money and important documents (the beginnings of the Archives). Over time they outgrew the chest and eventually moved to the Muniment Room below - now the Library and Archives office! #EYAYourArchives #ExploreYourArchive

@ExploreYourArchive Day 9 #EYAYourArchives We have been excited to launch our Volunteer Programme, welcoming in volunteers to participate in transcription and digitisation projects. See our website for more information about getting involved. @FalklandsinUK @FalklandsGov

We hold archives, manuscripts & rare books relating to the British experience in Africa, Asia & the Middle East, including missionary, trade & NGO records, plus personal papers of individuals connected to these regions. We are open to everyone - come and visit! #EYAYourArchives

We celebrated the 25th birthday of #JerseyArchive in Clarence Road this year. It's home to a host of fascinating records and our team are ready and waiting to help you to start your #Research journey! #EYAYourArchives #JerseyCI #OurIslandStory

My favourite in our archive (amongst many!) has to be my husband’s nan’s postcard collection. From 1910-1919 it even has a silk card from the Lusitania as well as dozens from the trenches and British holidays. Wonderful #EYAYourArchives historicalclues.blogspot.com/2022/01/postca…

It’s the final day of #ExploreYourArchive focus week! Our final theme is #EYAYourArchives - use the hashtag to showcase anything you want to celebrate in your archives! 📢 Thank you so much for getting involved this year, it’s been great to see all your fantastic posts 👍🎉

Today is the last day of the Explore Your Archive focus week and we want to see #EYAYourArchives | #EYADoChartlann! Don’t forget to tag 🏷️ @araireland & @explorearchives in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

🎊 Today's focus week theme is #EYAAnniversaries. Let us know what big milestones your archive or your items have achieved! 🎊 #ExploreYourArchive

To celebrate today's theme of #EYAInclusion, we have a new blog! In this blog, The King's Fund's Library team highlight their recent work around accessibility 📣 exploreyourarchive.org/an-ordinary-li… #ExploreYourArchive

Our Tyneside Campaign for Homosexual Equality Archive records the work of the group who campainged for the rights of members of their community through the latter half of the 20thC. Browse the catalogue here: specialcollections.ncl.ac.uk/che #ExploreYourArchive #EYAInclussion

We created large print and easy-to-read versions of our railways and tourism exhibition "Scots On the Move". You can download the easy to read version here 👉bit.ly/OnTheMoveEasyR… And the large print version is also available online 👉bit.ly/OnTheMoveLarge… #EYAInclusion

‘Pericles re-imagined for everyone aged 6 and over’ (2011) one of a series of Shakespeare’s plays adapted for children at the Regent’s Park @OpenAirTheatre. The only programme in our archive designed to be made into a pirate hat! #EYAInclusion @ShakesInstitute @explorearchives

Our #Archive team's major outreach project for 2025 has been ‘What’s Your School’s Story?’ talks. To make them more #Accessible to those with hearing loss, we improved our sound system, added subtitles to our screen and provided scripts so people could follow along. #EYAInclusion